Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care about you - they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.